How we engineer feedback at Figma with eng crits
A behind the scenes look at engineering crits at Figma.
How AI will influence creative tools: A conversation with Replit’s David Hoang
Replit's VP of Marketing and Design David Hoang talks about how AI is reshaping the future of product design and development.
5 things designers need to know for a smooth handoff
Figma Designer Advocate Lauren Andres shares her tips for streamlining handoff.
The anatomy of a Super Bowl ad
How learning app Duolingo’s cheeky five-second spot beat the odds in a crowded field.
Design system 101: What is a design system?
Uncover what a design system is, types, best practices, and when to use it. Discover Figma’s solutions for multi-brand systems and compare design systems vs style guides.
How to plug in and power up your designer-developer handoff with Figma and Jira
Teams across industries to see how they manage designer-developer handoff and get their teams into flow with the Figma for Jira app.
An insider’s guide to a seamless Figma migration
Discover the art of migrating to Figma with practical strategies for team collaboration, effective planning, and embracing a new design culture.
Everything you need to know about Dev Mode
Our product philosophy, how we got here, and what’s up next.
The art and science of annotations in Dev Mode
A behind the scenes look at how we built annotations in Dev Mode.
Peter Yang’s 10 rules for making products that customers love
Product lead Peter Yang taps into his decade-plus career to explain why staying focused on the craft is a product manager’s superpower.
What’s next for Dev Mode: annotations, compare changes, plugins, and more
The improvements we're making as Dev Mode moves out of free beta on January 31.
Improving performance with incremental frame loading
Large prototypes took minutes to load, and users took notice. Here’s how we overhauled our prototype player to improve load time and stability.
Issue no.3: The handoff
Figma’s editorial newsletter about how products take shape—and shape our world.
How Razorpay sharpened developer workflows
A conversation with Razorpay's design systems team.
Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger
Figma and Adobe no longer see a path toward regulatory approval
When net zero isn’t enough: Deepening our commitment to climate action by investing in the future
With our biggest ever investment in sustainability, Figma ensures that vanguard technologies the future depends on will continue to scale.
Issue no.2: Rework your work
Figma’s editorial newsletter about how products take shape—and shape our world.
Enforcing device trust on code changes
How the Figma security engineering team protects GitHub release branches.
Why cultivating a prototyping culture will help you build better products
Prototyping, once an eleventh-hour nice-to-have, has risen to become a critical tool at multiple points in the product development workflow.
Top 10 things we shipped this year
From the Handoff Hero to the Scroll-stopper, we crown our favorite updates and features rolled out in 2023.
Figma’s 2023 Handoff
Signing off to 2023 and bringing the best of Figma into 2024.
From Slack-lash to Toggle Tax: The new vernacular of work
New norms call for new terms. Our new unofficial work term glossary uncovers how work defined us and how we define it.
Shipping hype: PMs on what it takes to bring AI features to market
Explore how to build AI features that users trust with insights from Product Managers at Figma, Duolingo, Asana, and LinkedIn.
Tap into shortcuts with a new custom keyboard from Figma x Work Louder
How mechanical keyboards unite joy and efficiency, and a look at our collaboration with Work Louder.
Come together: A multiplayer guide to great meetings
Facilitators and participants alike can take meetings from “meh” to magical.
All your questions about variables answered (and a few you didn’t even know you had)
Our latest variable updates bring design and code even closer, and an unprecedented level of customizability to your designs. Product Manager Jacob Miller breaks it down and answers your questions.
Building a design system that breathes with Headspace
Headspace uses Figma advanced features like variables to optimize their design system and unlock better collaboration with developers and growth opportunities.
Dev Mode: Building a design tool that works harder for developers
The Dev Mode team shares how they created a home for developers in a design tool
Are designers happy? Our new “State of the Designer” report aims to find out
Explore Figma’s report on job satisfaction among designers in the era of remote work, revealing increased happiness and new challenges.
Three Creator Fund projects to know and love
Our grant program empowers the community to create free resources for all to use. These tools are some of the highlights.
Storyboarding the future of design and creativity
How Adobe + Figma's shared vision might work and look.
How Figma’s data science and user research teams weave together insights that count
A cross-functional team brought together quantitative and qualitative learnings to figure out why notifications were falling short—and how to make them better.
Server-side sandboxing: Containers and seccomp
An overview of containers and seccomp as sandboxing primitives
Server-side sandboxing: An introduction
The first of our three-part series on deploying and operating sandboxing techniques
Dan Mall’s 10 principles for a worthy design career
Dan Mall distills decades of experience navigating the design world into ten pieces of advice for tackling complex tasks, preventing burnout, and fostering continuous learning.
Unlocking the power of an inclusive classroom with Figma’s open canvas
Educators Lisa Highfill and Meredith Greene are taking a student-driven approach to lesson design in Figma—creating a more inclusive, engaged classroom experience for all types of learners.
Transforming design education for Japan’s K-12 students
School districts in Japan can deploy and manage Figma licenses with Google’s admin console for free. Districts can now apply to bring Figma to their classrooms.
EU hosting for Figma and FigJam files
Figma announces new EU hosting options for Figma and FigJam files. Read more on our commitment to data security and what this means for Enterprise plan customers.
What codegen is (actually) good for
Codegen isn't a replacement, but an extension of your programming. In this post, we share recommendations for using codegen to augment your workflows.
Issue no.1: Break out of the box
Figma’s editorial newsletter about how products take shape—and shape our world.
Work has changed. New research tells us why and what we might do about it
A new study highlights three forces shaping the future of work, and what sets the best teams apart from the chaos.
Meet the nonprofit training formerly incarcerated people for careers in UX design
Oakland, California-based CROP Organization wants to forge a better path for those facing the challenges of reentry.
Creating coherence: How Spotify’s design system goes beyond platforms
Design Manager Juli Sombat sheds light on how a need for more cohesion led Spotify’s design systems team to approach components in a new way.
Keeping Figma fast
When a laptop crashed in an empty office, we knew it was time to overhaul our performance testing framework.
Dev Mode fast follows: 200+ new features and fixes
After two months of open beta, we’ve shipped more than 200 of the most-wanted updates to our Dev Mode workspace.
Is the New Deal for business leading by design?
Brian Chesky saved Airbnb by leading through design, and he thinks this is just the beginning of the revolution. Five industry experts weigh in.
Navigating the intersection of design and business: A conversation with Airbnb’s Brian Chesky
Airbnb’s Brian Chesky talks about design’s catalytic potential for business and the central role it played in Airbnb’s post-IPO growth story.
Is your work style written in the stars?
Product Research Intern Jacky Huang and Software Engineer Willy Wu discuss their FigJam widget that matches up your work style with the stars, and how fun is the future of collaborative work.
Running up that hill: Creativity, AI, and the human pursuit of uphill thinking
John Maeda shares takeaways from this year’s Design In Tech Report, and why we should embrace uphill thinking in a world optimized for shortcuts.
The future of design systems is semantic
In this piece, we dig into the decreasing gap between design and code, increasing semantics, and one of Figma’s newest features: variables.
Throwing curveballs: Shopify’s secret for staying ahead of the game
By shaking up business as usual, managers encourage their teams to think bigger—from roadmap planning to retros.
The anatomy of launching a Figma open beta
A go-to-market strategy doesn’t just end on launch day. We’re putting our very own Dev Mode under the scalpel to dissect what’s at play in the critical two-week period after launch.
The shared language of props
Best practices for bridging the languages of design and development.
Paula Scher’s 10 rules for play
We invited the Pentagram partner to share her “10 rules for play” noted down over a formidable and long-lasting career.
Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode
Learn about our new interface, and how we're making Figma better for developers
AI: The next chapter in design
AI is more than a product, it’s a platform that will change how and what we design—and who gets involved.
Building a digital-first future for every student
Figma and Google for Education are doubling down on the promise of bringing design and technology tooling to K12 students across the US and Japan
Why roles are not rules
Product development is increasingly collaborative. But what does it mean to be collaborative as an engineer?
Introducing Shortcut, Figma’s new blog
It’s been said “you can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
What’s happening at Config 2023?
No need for FOMO—the Editorial Team is reporting live from the scene.